Bug reporting for KDE 4

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:16:31AM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > On Monday 29 October 2007, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > how are posting permissions set on such lists, btw? 
> >
> > Very permissive (yes that means spam can get in too, assuming kde.org
> > doesn't detect it).
> > 
> > > can only bugzilla post?
> >
> > No since the "From" field is actually the bug reporter.
> > 
> this problem can be alleviated by looking for a header like
> X-Bugzilla-Reason.
> this makes it unnecessary to be completely unmoderated, obviously.

Let's see what your mailman coding skills are :-)

> > > 'cause everything that happens directly on the list is effectively
> > > lost for the reporter ...
> >
> > Yep, but since the Reply-To includes the bug address this effectively
> > doesn't happen.
> > 
> any sane mailer just discards list-replyto. some mailers try to be
> intelligent beyond this, but i wouldn't count on it.

Trust me, it worked fine on the bug I tried (old bug in kmail-devel).

Mailing-list created now.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).